How they AWS

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A curated collection of publicly available resources on how technology and tech-savvy organizations around the world use Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Introduction

How they AWS is a curated knowledge repository of engineering blog posts and videos covering architectures, deployment patterns and use of various AWS services by the leading technology or tech-savvy organizations.

Many organizations regularly come forward and share their best practices, architecture, trade-offs, tools, techniques and offer an insight into engineering culture on various public platforms like blogs, conferences & meetups. The content is curated from these avenues and shared in this repository.

Note to readers: This list refers to some of the articles, posts, videos, tools, and techniques published before 2015 (marked with :exclamation:). Please use such material with caution as there may be recent advances in technology and practices which offer better alternatives and perspectives.

Topics

• AWS Compute, Storage, Network, Database services
• Architectures
• Deployment Patterns
• Infrastructure as Code
• SRE, DevOps
• Incidents
• Automation
• Scalability, Performance
• Security

Organizations

<details> <summary>A Cloud Guru</summary>

Blog Posts

• How we reduced Lambda cold starts at ACG, 2020
• Optimizing a multimillion-dollar cloud bill
• Streaming Video at Scale: A Tale of Transcoding at ACG, 2020

Videos

• Natasja Laurie: The tale of transcoding at A Cloud Guru, 2020
• Serverless: From one function to 43 microservices
• How A Cloud Guru does Serverless, 2019
• The Story of a Serverless Startup, 2017

</details> <details> <summary>Airbnb</summary>

Blog Posts

• Our Journey Towards Cloud Efficiency, 2021
• Achieving Insights and Savings with Cost Data, 2021
• BinaryAlert: Real-time Serverless Malware Detection , 2017
• Introducing Syslog to AWS Kinesis via Osquery, 2016
• Unlocking Horizontal Scalability in Our Web Serving Tier, 2016
• When The Cloud Gets Dark — How Amazon’s Outage Affected Airbnb, 2011 :exclamation:

</details> <details> <summary>Algolia</summary>

Blog Posts

• Making Search Talk: Connecting Algolia and Alexa, 2017
• Tips for Reducing the Cost of Your Infrastructure, 2017
• DNS fallback for better resilience, 2015

</details> <details> <summary>Asana</summary>

Blog Posts

• How we modified our infrastructure to deploy an EU data center, 2020

• How to build stable, accessible data infrastructure at a startup, 2014 :exclamation:

• Issues Moving to Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancer, 2012 :exclamation:

</details> <details> <summary>Atlassian</summary>

Blog Posts

• Automated Testing: 5 Lessons from Atlassian’s Kubernetes team on testing infrastructure as code, 2020
• Using an event-driven architecture to improve Jira Software responsiveness, 2019
• Caching in: performance engineering in Jira Cloud, 2019
• Our not-so-magic journey scaling low latency, multi-region services on AWS, 2019
• ~~Migrating the Atlassian Identity Platform to AWS~~
• ~~Scaling React server-side rendering in Jira Cloud~~

</details> <details> <summary>Basecamp</summary>

Blog Posts

• AWS S3: You’re out of order, 2020
• How to waste half a day by not reading RFC 1034, 2020
• Running spot instances effectively with Amazon EKS, 2020
• Seamless branch deploys with Kubernetes, 2020

</details> <details> <summary>Box</summary>

Blog Posts

• 10 lessons learnt scaling Redshift Cluster at Box, 2019
• Snitch: Putting consistency back into S3, 2018

</details> <details> <summary>CapitalOne</summary>

Blog Posts

• Building Intelligent, Elastic Architectures in the Cloud
• Moving to DynamoDB to Increase Application Resiliency, 2021
• Advice on Taking the AWS Machine Learning — Specialty Exam, 2021
• Automate AWS Infrastructure with Boto 3 — AWS Instance Tags, 2020
• Automate AWS Infrastructure with Boto 3: AWS Health Checks, 2020
• Automate Your AWS Infrastructure with Boto 3 — AWS Snapshots, 2020
• Guardrails for AWS Event-Driven Serverless Architectures, 2020
• Starting Out with AWS & DevOps — 10 Tips From an Expert, 2020
• Active-Active Shared-Nothing Database Architecture, 2020
• AWS Lambda Java Tutorial: Best Practices to Lower Cold Starts, 2020
• AWS Glue: An ETL Solution with Huge Potential, 2020
• Terraform Poka-Yokes — Writing Effective, Scalable, Dynamic, and Error-Resistant Terraform, 2020
• A Developer Walks into Amazon SageMaker…, 2029
• A Deep Dive Into Seamless Blue/Green Deployment Using AWS CodeDeploy, 2019
• 4 Serverless Myths to Understand Before Getting Started with AWS, 2019
• Best Practices for AWS Lambda Container Reuse, 2019
• Building Feature Toggles into Terraform, 2019
• Multi-Region Deployments with Terraform, 2018
• Applying Minification and Uglification to AWS Lambda Functions, 2018
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